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in india oh she's available in the movie joyce the hotel room the home of villas the gateway to the grand imperial truly the taj was there. you can tell this most of the show there to see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was hotel to retreat. after a brief recess the trial resumes a live pictures right here as egypt's former president hosni mubarak's trial continues in cairo six months after mass protests forced him from power he's facing charges of causing the deaths of nearly eight hundred fifty people during february's revolution charges were read out moments ago he now denies all the charges against him again live pictures off the proceedings from the courtroom here on. the u.s. a swallow's a self-made and bitter pill to the devastating default country that never hesitates
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to jump at the chance to advise other nations through their economic struggles turns out to be unprepared to handle its own crisis. by moscow warns against calls at the u.n. to target the syrian regime urging for actions of push the warring sides towards dialogue to end the escalating violence in the country has come fresh crackdowns on protesters all reported on wednesday. just after two pm here in the russian capital this is artsy with me roll recent shots egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak is in court on a sick bed facing charges six months after being toppled outside the court clashes have erupted between supporters and opponents of the former leader leaving one person and at least fifteen wounded when barack is charged with the killing of
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protesters during the february uprising and corruption as well. reports from car. speculation continues to swirl up and fill the hours still runs there whether or not hosni mubarak will be able to make it to the courtroom now his distrust him a went to great lengths to protect him as these frail old man who is now being subjected to the full tourist procedures why the opposite of the strong man image that he's enjoyed for most of his life now over the past few months we're heard multiple reports of his poor house so many egyptians people especially those who are counting out on the chalkboard prayer back in january on that very all these three floors or four houses nothing more than just the actrix deployed to distract attention from the crimes that he stands accused off and these charges include conspiring in the killing of about eight hundred forty people he's
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also faced with multiple charges of corruption and if found guilty he indeed could face a death sentence by hanging now it needs to be pointed out that so far we haven't heard anything from the guard both in detached immunity for. interrogation that release to the press we know died he denies all the charges he says that he never a day that any orders cells using violence against the protesters and that he does not accept responsibility for these crimes that he now stands accused of but dozens of people have been killed ever since he's been down and the only difference between these two groups has got those people killed in the initial uprising and now referred to as martyrs that families there are sitting pensions and those who were killed after a war faster mubarak stepped down from office i referred to dogs and criminals there is a growing sounds of this illusion and within at the just a society of regards to the truth of this revolution many people still does life
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has really become glorious after sinful to move our set down from power. it will go at many welcome to trial but i'll tell you more how things change here on the ground here is a report by my colleague mary for national this quaint cairo is now one of the most famous in the world many around the globe even those with little knowledge of arabic know its name the three it means liberation well the revolution of january put this part of the globe on the map but apart from that what else it is the people of egypt. this man has been running his own business for thirty five years it used to bring him enough money to send his son to study to canada and take his large family abroad one see. it with the economic devastation caused by and rest and political uncertainty mohammad's enterprise has been badly fractured now he can barely a food to feed his children he says the wind of change may have brought freedom to
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egypt it is brought as survival strong and it's way. out about if you like iraq but you know i love the revolution when it happened i welcomed it but look at the time like a life at the end of the tunnel you see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat just don't tell me about democracy for hungry people just doesn't matter. the kind of poverty fuel the revolution your growth has dropped from five to just one percent some thirteen million people live below the breadline unemployment has hit twelve percent. egypt's revolution was regarded as the nation's successful arab spring chapter it took eighteen days to end one of the world's longest dictatorships former president mubarak will face justice within days charges of corruption and sanctioning killing which carries a death penalty one months on there is little satisfaction and dictator free egypt
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is far from the best place to be and one of the. and the. very hopeless people now are talking about. whether they. would be a better solution. and they're very sad that is that people are indeed tired even those who back the changes this young man is from the revolution youth. he tries to remain optimistic because he says sounds a lot like south conviction that if you don't know the state we've been living under mubarak for many many years to me i'd say it's great what we did but we do need to be more patient and this is difficult we have a lot of problems greatly but we do need to wait for a little longer. recentre need to mistreat sions in the square show that this toy's system has been pushed to the limit and it's three tests vs patience in the battle
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to save egypt's from crumbling family. grief and optional r t kyra. and r.t. is coming to you live from the heart of moscow and plenty more stories ahead for you this hour including. the. sooner we head to georgia to check out what's behind somebody sees a thirst for glitz and glamour and how president saakashvili plans to win public support by turning up the news. the u.s. and narrowly misses a potential default after years of acting as a guiding light for other countries battling economic hardship russia was one of the states advised by washington over how to deal with its worst crisis in the one thousand nine hundred ninety eight has been investigating now why america is reluctant to adopt the tough measures it prescribes to others. congress has now approved a compromise to reduce the deficit and avert
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a default that would have devastated our cars the u.s. just had to swallow these bitter pill that many student it will help the patients recovery but will instead prove to be a poisoned chalice our economy is not growing at all in fact unemployment remains very high foreclosures remain very high no recovery is taking place and are we on a suicide mission we may be gesturing you know the kind of deal with there at the same time make it impossible for the government to play any role to save the economy in the economy is going down rapidly at some point shortly after the collapse of the soviet union russia became an american laborde tree for nearly economic theorists as can americans take their own advice now to deal with their own economic crisis. live within your means the same advice they gave us without knowing our economic and social realities and were we to be russian to had it
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russia central bank and the media post soviet period the year he took up the chop in one thousand nine hundred ninety two so the worst forefinger inflation in russia's history the us the sarra tkinter nanjing of the communist economy was in collapse but there was nothing to replace it with. so perhaps this situation was disastrous for him did was over a hundred billion dollars in gold in foreign currency reserves was in fifteen million which effectively means nil borke people still reformists of the van government remember how in america's advice so-called shock therapy was a plant the markets might have got the therapy of the people but the shock empty shelves and must pull that seems closer as one politician said to you from a mortgage to a communist economy is easier it's like trying to turn your query into fish soup which do the opposite is much harder it's like trying to revive the dead fish it
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took more than russia a decade to revive it's a quarry and return to economic growth transforming the country's fortunes after the disaster of the nine hundred ninety s. were the us not a patient in dire need oh it could all make. we'll soon see the math and they thought it was good enough for both or get robbed will be paid for america if they don't argue about art. i mean time roger also i think from the trends research institute told us here that despite the last minute deal for us is doomed for yet another great depression. the american economy as well as much of the global economy is heading into the greatest depression anything everything that you're doing is not going to salvage if you don't what's a reputation a reputation is by what you deliver it in i did states can't deliver the united states can't deliver on its wars the losers of wars where there are iraq
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afghanistan the war on drugs the new war with libya they are losers the government did everything to pay touch look at all the trillions of dollars the tens of trillions that have been pumped into the system since the panic of zero eight struck by the federal reserve right d.c. with its stimulus bailouts is big to fail everything they do they turn to failure the business of america when i used to be a young man it used to be business now the business of america is war and you can see by the new ones that obama started and the old ones that he keeps going. he would not see life from moscow it's now eleven minutes past two in the afternoon the violence in syria is picking up pace the ports the government forces have resumed storming the opposition stronghold of hama and cracking down on protests all across the country around one hundred forty people are said to have been killed over the past few days meanwhile the u.n. is locked in heated debate over what action to take on the crisis so he's going to
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start. the united nations security council wrapped up their second day of consultations surrounding the violence in syria with what many believe is at least a draft text that each member of the security council will now bring back to their respective capitals there is a divide among security council members on where the condemnation a lot the u.s. and its western allies believe there should be a direct information against the syrian government and the syrian president for the crackdown against anti-government protesters that have been taking place since mid march get other countries like russia china india brazil and others believe that there should be are much more balanced approach that would ever words are used in any text that is put forth by the security council should not exacerbate an already sensitive circumstance in syria now russia has said in the past that it opposes on
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balanced measures such as saying sions that could create an even bigger problem and the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin has said that the resolution dealing with libya he believes was dealt with very frivolously and the security council can't help but keep that in mind when contemplating what the security council can and cannot do when it comes to the situation in syria and we're concerned about the well and some of these collusion because we and we think that under these circumstances the security council would have. positive signal in favor of only going to do anything to balance the security council will convene again wednesday morning to continue taking on this issue of syria and all the violence that has been going on for more than four months there. from syria syria throughout libya now where the u.n. mandate to protect civilians there has come under fire for the way it's being
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implemented some countries feel the nato led coalition is using it to try and talk all colonel gadhafi political analyst michel atrocity off scheme of things going down the same path in syria coming off the entire region or people who are actually committing crimes against humanity is the nato us military alliance we see it in in libya it was absolutely no justification for the intervention in libya. you know this rection which which took place in eastern and eastern libya and there's even less of a justification when intervention in syria is a very important country and if there's military intervention in syria then we are in for an extended war which goes from the mediterranean right to a chinese border because then you have integration of the war theaters in afghanistan and iraq of course palestine lebanon on and saw a much larger war let's understand any kind of military intervention in syria at
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this stage using the pretext of a protest movement or responsibility to protect we have devastating consequences and lead to a military escalation of the vast area. i know we've got some exclusive coverage of the violence in syria on the website one of our reporters has been in the city of homs where over one hundred people have allegedly been killed just in the past few days alone feel free to head over to r.t. dot com right now for the full report all right what are still ahead for you in the program here on r.t. alarm bells go off in the balkans nato up its presence along the north border between cause and serbia to keep a close watch on rising ethnic tensions. now a quarter past the hour a grand m.t.v. concert has a rock for the republic of georgia in an event some locals are branded a waste of taxpayer money with the economy struggling and unemployment running
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rampant georgians have question how the president coughed up the cash for such a spectacle and as i see it sarah furthur reports mikhail saakashvili is hoping his approach will strike a positive note with the fact. that we're. targeting the m.t.v. generation the state funded pop confident that team is certainly attracted some big names. i like so much and u.k. good here's here's your spats lots of. lights a lot of. this as president pakistani popularity continues to fall roughly among the older generation thinks he's now trying to hail a much younger crowd so the first time the president's caves eat up the stars what many see as appears to win a popularity. contest are true or smart for the specialist over more than a p.r.
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i'm sure you know how to use the result across the system inside the country but this entire album exists. for britain diplomats or with regard to the p.r. conscious president has often used music as a political weapon this song commissioned the head of the teeth thousand and eight presidential election uses his nickname in the humble title me sure is cool. you know any other normal country where top singers or rock singers are pretty good all the president all these high profile publicity stunts they come at a cost. with the money to bring such stars to pay for the equipment because government funds come from the money of taxpayers like me and you couldn't you can't take money from such bonds that are more than ours that was the concert adverts will certainly have gained the country attention in the west beyond beautiful but to me it's huge it's still
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a country where human rights violations are not uncommon international grief such as human rights watch said the government was responsible for a wide spread of leases last year lease be tallit see bans on preassembled an abnormally high conviction rate in course cited as some of the serious concerns in fact police tactics were evident when a protest in the century tbilisi recently the. violently dispersed. the incident sparked international calls for an independent investigation it was known for being forthcoming safe because many times the plow money and energy into tasting this pop concert and as the stars take to the stage police brutality and lack of government accountability they she's it seems they can be brushed under the carpet it's been clute the biggest party to just have to see the basics of the events of being quick to point out the likely things contact relate to the very serious issues that's
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going to be addressed in the country copeland will still they believe it when the party is a vote on the needs so there are the fifty. modern music isn't the only new initiative associated with ga if you go to our website you can get more details news updates and videos georgia makes tourism a high priority as the country considers legalizing cannabis and of the number of foreign policy. found in other news the. capital gives the citizens a tough lesson in proper parking by driving an armored vehicle over i'm not trying to say that it's. also a one liner u.f.o. fans are jumping for joy after swedish explorers find an extraterrestrial object lurking at the bottom of the baltic sea drawing comparisons with an infamous spaceship from the legendary star wars film.
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twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow and nato has sent additional troops to cause of north border with serbia after an escalation of violence as belgrade calls for a peaceful resolution there reinforcement will bolster alliance forces already patrolling the area one officer was killed in clashes between cause of our special forces and ethnic serbs when police took control of two disputed border crossings special forces sent to the border by the cause of the government to enforce a trade ban on serbian imports it was in response to belgrade existing in bargo one cause of and goods in place since because of those unilateral declaration of independence in two thousand and eight morris amounted to a serbian canadian film director says that serbia is under pressure from the e.u.
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to recognize kosovo. the situation in kosovo is very unstable this is due to illegal acts of the so-called government of kosovo it is not helping out of stocks of course and go she was there due to continuous september and the whole escalation of violence is simply not going towards a peaceful solution that everybody is hoping for considering that the international community has an interest in solving the so-called north kosovo issue it would not be unreasonable to suggest that they are trying to sort of fix this issue as fast as possible and i strongly believe that if force is necessary to do what they have planned they will use it and we must also remind ourselves that the e.u. asked belgrade as an unwritten prerequisite to recognize course was independence and this would mean that belgrade should accept kosovo's sovereignty and territorial territorial integrity which which is very complicated to explain to the
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people of serbia this escalation of violence of course is not helping belgrade because. the people of serbia. see this as a provocation and it is making their sentiments against reaching compromise. not very favorable tried your side serbia has already made many concessions for the so-called republican cause so they recognize their documents their i.d.'s their license plates so i think calling for the albanians to negotiations is another call for serbs to accept more things that are just leading to serbia recognizing kosovo . without see another structure got some other news from around the world for you this hour at least thirty four people being killed and dozens injured in two days of clashes in the ongoing bolland's in pakistan if you cut out she reports say bodies were found of scattered across different parts of the country's largest city some riddled with bullets and showing signs of torture police believe about two
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hundred people were killed in karachi in july. i alone the city has a long history of ethnic religious under sectarian violence along the city's main political parties. when explosions have struck western backed down killing four and wounding thirteen officials said the first blast occurred near a local convenience store with the second bomb going off a few minutes later when police and witnesses have gathered at the scene which comes after iraq's political leaders gave the government the green light to negotiate with the us for a possible deal to keep their troops in the country on a training mission. colombian authorities have captured two suspected leaders of a cocaine operation involving the transfer of twenty eight tons of drugs per year to the united states via submarines police said the arrest was the conclusion of a six year investigation into the drugs ring i mean what i provided after the u.s. coast guard announced the capture of a submarine off the honduran coast carrying seven and
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a half tons of cocaine haul had an estimated street value of one hundred and eighty million dollars. all right you're up to date now with the main headlines here in our three i'll be back with a recap in a few minutes after corrina at the business. i work about business update this hour here on our team thanks for joining me pay pal is weighing plans to open an office and moscow this autumn according to the head of the city's paper the world's largest online payment portal is planning to invest twenty five million dollars in russia pay pal is coming he hadn't had with its owner online auction site e bay you don't have to operate in russia to sort out online transactions and deliver it while it's in talks with d.h.l. about parcel service is pay pal will be transferring money analysts say pay pal's move looks reasonable given much as proving online paper dark. prices for jet fuel
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in russia are and are about to take off again the country's key suppliers hike fuel charges by up to ten percent on tuesday all companies say that high global coote prices and domestic shortages are spraying the increase in addition lack of fuel is being driven by higher traffic volumes the russian airlines jet fuel prices have risen twenty five percent this year with a penis hike in early june. let's have a look at the markets now is declining for fourth day its longest losing streak since may investors bet that signs of a slowing u.s. economy main goal to use the mind of the world's biggest consumer of crude gold is edging higher in london as concerns that the u.s. economy's holding its posting to man for safe haven yellow metal is trading partner percent high and summer is out in point seven percent the stock. european stock markets lower on the heels of sharp losses in the u.s. and asia among the worst performers are solicitation or rather we stopped six point
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six percent after reporting a thirty one percent drop in second quarter net profit other banks are also mostly lower except for standard chartered at last that rose two percent in london after the lender reported a twenty percent rise in his presence on long. island here in moscow markets diving into negative territory tracking losses and asia europe both the us s m i six losing one point three percent now let's have a look at some individual moves on them isaac's energy mages among the main loses weight a low crude price is losing the one point three percent this our last known position one percent back in stocks are also in the red with bt be down one point two percent bucking the trend is probably metal cutting point two percent as well as on long higher growth funds. gazprom yet has boosted its first half and that profit by seventy four percent to two point six billion dollars the. oil arm of gas monopoly
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gas problem says the result driven by high crude prices the improvement at sales. with global markets reeling from continue them certainty over debt issues i've got a copy of call at rice's capital believes investors will continue to talk a cult but there is no secret in this because with all these risks to me i'm like a us slowdown the weakness of. the peripheral real bear problems people are going to grow old that's why in russian space i could see the. storks which are dealing with the growth these are probably mental protozoa problems growth we sure are we will bring attention from the sort of restless russian mobile phone retailers is to list and i love the stock exchange next year the company's c.e.o. has estimated its value of between one point six and two point eight billion dollars it says up to forty percent of shares sold meanwhile says noah has reported
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a twenty six percent profit growth for the first couple things you're. trying to prepare yourself for the possibility of an i.p.o. next year looking at some windows one as me you probably are the ones of sober i.p.o. is not the only way to raise funds obviously there is private placements there's also a possibility to get rather than equity forty and say so once a year we're looking at i.p.o. was one of the alternatives to much of a response the reason why we actually need to raise funds is primarily for the other projects within the group the shareholder of this is neuer also has other projects like snow being that it's looking after and those are the projects that need the funding that's all the business is for now i'll be back with more strongly .
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last time the close of team was in the cool gum region where men flock from all over the world to have a few centimeters to their self-confidence. this time archie goes to the a more region. for the gold rush still gets people like the. nation tried like to save its culture. for cranes are protected in the first ten times on official major reserves. so the region. more should close up on the cards he.

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